I am loving this bowl so much and the whole process of making it. I feel kinda helpless now because I helped out through some of it, but all the detail work is Wendy's forte and I'm just a beginner. So I keep her company while she works on the details. I think she's inspired another mug and bowl maker though - I will continue to learn from the master.

Wait til you see the next progress report! _________________"But why is the rum gone?!" -Capn. Jack Sparrow

Yeah the fez bowl is looking cool! Funny that we had seen some photoshop action of the bowl on his head BEFORE it was a fez! hang 10 is a psychic. How do you do that voodoo that you do?

Last thought of 2013... I want a Dan mug! He needs his own mug. We all know how he loves tiki! I would buy one and I bet others would too! Not near a computer or I would have tried to photoshop a picture of how it might look.

Happy New Year Wendy & Dan and everyone else on this thread. Me and my wife are at Don the Beachcomber for the evening. I will post some drinks on that other thread.

(Last thought of 2013... I want a Dan mug! He needs his own mug. We all know how he loves tiki! I would buy one and I bet others would too! Not near a computer or I would have tried to photoshop a picture of how it might look.) Now Dan's head needs to be shrunk.

Happy New Year to you both as well.

hang10tiki Dan loves his new mug and bowl.

TikiHula what a thing to say. He's here and I'm about to make him suffer. Clay all over his hands.

Hi Friends, to celebrate the New Year I bought a $5 bottle of Champagne, the first I'd ever bought. When Dan tore off the foil it had wire all over the cork and we couldn't pull it off so Dan cut if off.

The we found it had a twist if off place that was hidden by the foil.

It took a lot of strength to remove the cork but Dan did

and we toasted the new year. Then Dan went back to his glass of wine saying the Champagne was too sweet.

Happy 2014 everyone.

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We started the day with Tiki Hula bringing in the bowl to the work table.

He stared off carving the hair.

After several hours we had the three pony tails finished on the outside.

Front view.

Next we carved out the tops just how he wanted and they were finished or so we thought.

It takes a lot of thought to shrink a head.

So we began the process.

At the end of the day we had one roughed out.

Tiki Hula just exclaimed, "Wendy we forgot the bands around the pony tails". So friends we are logging off and going back to work. Cheers from Wendy and Tiki Hula

I couldn't be happier with the way it's turned out and I'm so excited for the next step! I've never done anything like this before, and although Wendy did the heavy lifting, I tried my hand at sculpting for the first time and really enjoyed it. I can't even draw stick figures, but with a lot of practice I think I might be ok at sculpting. More lessons from the master are in my future.